Manga like Ryouta wa Otouto wo Koroshita

Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu

Also known as The Summer Hikaru Died.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Two boys lived in a village: Yoshiki and Hikaru. The two did everything together...until the day Hikaru was encompassed by a mysterious light. That was when everything changed—Hikaru most of all. Yoshiki still wishes from the bottom of his heart to always stay by his side...but is there even a Hikaru left to be with?

Tags: Monster Boy , Male Protagonist , Rural , Cosmic Horror , Body Horror , Seinen , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Boys' Love , Eco-Horror , LGBTQ+ Themes , Unrequited Love , Curses , Gods , Mountaineering

pupa

Also known as Pupa.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Psychological

The "life-and-death sibling" story follows Utsutsu and Yume Hasegawa, a boy and his little sister who find themselves all alone. One day, Yume sees a mysterious red butterfly and her body undergoes a strange metamorphosis—into a creature that eats humans. Utsutsu struggles to find a way to restore his sister.



Tags: Body Horror , Gore , Tragedy , Cannibalism , Shounen , Incest , Nudity , Shapeshifting , Rural , Estranged Family , Survival

Ichinose-ke no Taizai

Also known as The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Tsubasa Ichinose is a middle schooler who loses his memory in an accident. He is able to safely reunite with his family, but is soon faced with a new shocking reality... What is going on with this family?!

Note: Chapter count includes two one-shots included in vol. 6.

Tags: Tragedy , Amnesia , Family Life , Time Loop , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Conspiracy , Time Manipulation , Bullying , Coming of Age , Shounen , Estranged Family , School , Found Family , Rehabilitation , Photography

Hinata to Onii-chan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery

A black mist covers the sky, a ruined city, monstrous creatures, and non-human beings. The ones who delve into all these mysteries are the strange siblings living in such a world—Hakumei and Hinata. And so, their pure yet twisted sibling love is explored.

Tags: Found Family , Monster Boy

Jinruishoku

Also known as Jinrui-Shoku: Blight of Man.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Supernatural

“You just die one day and turn into a mummy!” Mysterious mummified corpses that people have nicknamed “Mummily-sans” keep being found one after another, causing a lot of fuss. One day, a boy named Seita notices that his friend is acting strangely…?! Don’t miss this thrilling suspense story about an invasion by the unknown!



Tags: Aliens , Pandemic , Conspiracy , Body Swapping , Virtual World , Urban Fantasy , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Necromancy , Shapeshifting

Tokimeki no Ikenie

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Romance

This is a story about Mari, a modest and inconspicuous girl who dreams of becoming a manga artist. Born into a complicated family, she lives a modest school life while hanging onto her dream. One day, after saving Shigeru Hanamizuki, the most popular boy in class, from a traffic accident, he confesses to her. However, Mari turns him down because of certain circumstances...



Tags: Cult , Gore , School , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Gods , Urban Fantasy

Aono-kun ni Sawaritai kara Shinitai

Also known as I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Horror , Romance , Supernatural

I would die if it would allow me to touch you. That is my love. Airhead Yuri-chan and her boyfriend Aono-kun had a perfectly normal relationship until one day Aono-kun suddenly “passed away” … They will never be bound together, and they cannot even touch. This is their difficult and almost too sincere love story.



Note: Nominated to the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Ghost , Psychosexual , Afterlife , Seinen , Body Horror , Reincarnation , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Suicide , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Amnesia , School

Ani datta Mono

Also known as He Was My Brother.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Horror , Romance , Supernatural

My brother died. I come to visit my brother's grave with my brother's lover——...... This is a story of my brother's lover, me and the "thing that was my big brother".



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Ghost , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Bisexual , Boys' Love , Age Gap

Diamond no Kouzai

Also known as The Days of Diamond.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Sports

“I was meant to play baseball!” Jiro Ayasegawa has a natural gift for sports, but life can be lonely at the top. He’s crushed other players’ dreams. Some have even given up their sport altogether because of him. Eventually, he encounters "The Bambies," a low-level, local kids’ baseball team that plays purely for fun. Jiro signs up, thinking that he’s finally found an easy-going team to enjoy baseball with, until things take a sudden turn...



Tags: Baseball , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast

Life 2: Giver Taker

Also known as Life 2: Giver/Taker.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

When the charming young boy who moves next door turns out to be a psychopath who murders her little sister, Itsuki vows to fight the injustice which gave him a second chance at life while her sister lies dead. Blaming herself for what happened, she becomes a stone-cold cop who fears nothing to prevent others from living through a similar tragedy. But six years later, on the very same day the killer is finally set free, she finds a chilling letter in her mailbox threatening to steal what's most important to her again. And though she wants nothing more than to make him pay for her sister's life that he stole, she'll have to watch her back now that there's a killer on the loose.

Tags: Police , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Crime , Detective , Urban